By Nidhi Verma
Introduction
According to the Indian Patents Act, 1970 (‘the Act’), a product patent gives an exclusive right to the patentee to prevent third parties, who do not have his consent, from making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing the patented product into India till the product patent is valid. Further, a process patent gives the patentee an ...

This meeting will have brief discussions on whether plain packaging legislation may be a breach of a country’s WTO obligations. The meeting will also consider upon different updates on the plain packaging...

AIPPI will be organising World Intellectual Property Congress from 14to 17 September 2014 in Toronto, Canada.
This Conference of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) will focus on all types of intellectual property rights including patents, trademarks and copyrights.
The workshop sessions in this conference will witness discussion on the followin...

International Trademark Association (INTA) will be organising its 136th Annual Meeting from 10 to 14 May 2014, in Hong Kong.
On 11th May, 2014 sessions will be held on following topics:
Competition Law and Intellectual Property: The Abuse of Rights
Consumer Perception of the Enforcement of Non-Traditional Trademarks
Domain Name Litigation and Arbitration in a World of 1,000+ New gTLDs
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1st February, 2012
Twenty two European nations signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on 26th January, 2012. The agreement is required to be ratified by the European Parliament before it can become law. The European Parliament is expected to debate it in June this year.
Last year, in December, Council of European Union had adopted the decision authorising the signing of AC...

9th January, 2012
Spain has enacted the ‘Sinde law’ to tackle online infringement. Originally part of the Sustainable Economy Bill, the provisions to tackle illegal file sharing/downloading were not passed in 2010.
The proposals to act against service providers who act with ‘direct or indirect lucrative intent’ or in any case cause or are capable of causing harm were seen as too broad. Als...

By Adarsh Ramanujan and R. Subhashree
A creative mind may say that a rose called by any other name would smell as sweet and a name has nothing to it. The Trademarks Act, 1999, however, envisages the opposite and our experience with brand names and market shares show that a name has quite a bit to it. It provides for registration of trademarks - a mark capable of being represented graphicall...

By Tarun Gopalakrishnan & Adarsh Ramanujan
Introduction
The purpose of patents is to protect and incentivise innovation. The structure of the patent system sets up a trade-off between disclosing the innovation and a limited exclusivity over it. Today, the number of patents held by an individual has become a proxy for an individual’s contribution to the sciences; corporations wear patent nu...